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On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:10 PM, pgrey wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> I've incorporated your code as best I could into myappA. I am able
> to get
> and cast a reference to MySecurityServicesLocalHome. However, a
> call on
> this to ".create()" throws a ClassCastException.
>
> [java] Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException:
> org.openejb.proxy.SessionEJBLocalObject$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$18880c84
> cannot be
> cast to co.my.MySecurityServicesLocal
> [java] at
> org.openejb.proxy.EntityEJBLocalHome$$EnhancerByCGLIB$
> $8786f6ac.create(<generated>)
OK, I forgot about this part.... but I think someone mentioned you
wanted to use ejb local references. That means the interface classes
have to be in the same classloader in both apps. Since you want to
be able to deploy them independently, you have to get them into a
parent classloader for both apps. I'd recommend putting the
necessarly interface jars into the geronimo repository at appropriate
locations and deploying a "dependencies only" plan to create a
classloader including these jars: then you can have a dependency on
this module in each of your ears.
You can also use the sharedlib module, although I don't think that
gives a suitably explicity level of control over your classloaders.
If you don't want to have a shared parent classloader you have to use
a remote rather than local reference. I think there's code that
serializes/deserializes as necessary without actually going over tcp/
ip but I haven't looked there in quite a while and might be wrong.
I figure that if you got this far you found the EjbReference class :-)
Hope this helps
david jencks
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> "David Jencks" <david_jencks@yahoo.com> wrote
> in message news:D5401B05-A79F-4A1D-9E18-511229CCBF37@yahoo.com...
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:31 AM, pgrey wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your response.
>>>
>>> Let's try to solve a specific part of this problem.
>>>
>>> In "geronimo-application.xml" of "myappA.ear", there is the
>>> following
>>> declaration.
>>>
>>> <gbean name="my-realm"
>>> class="org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm"
>>> xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.1">
>>> <attribute name="realmName">my-realm</attribute>
>>> <reference name="ServerInfo">
>>> <name>ServerInfo</name>
>>> </reference>
>>> <reference name="LoginService">
>>> <name>JaasLoginService</name>
>>> </reference>
>>> <xml-reference name="LoginModuleConfiguration">
>>> <login-config xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/
>>> loginconfig-1.1">
>>> <login-module control-flag="REQUIRED" server-side="true"
>>> wrap-principals="true">
>>> <login-domain-name>my-realm</login-domain-name>
>>> <login-module-class>com.my.subject.MyLoginModule</login-module-
>>> class>
>>> </login-module>
>>> </login-config>
>>> </xml-reference>
>>> </gbean>
>>>
>>> This declares a security realm usable by all of the WARs in
>>> myappA.ear.
>>>
>>> There are two implementations of the backend security
>>> information store.
>>>
>>> SecurityInformationStoreA is a file, similar to the geronimo sample
>>> users.properties and roles.properties.
>>> SecurityInformationStoreB is the security model of "myappB.ear",
>>> accessed
>>> through an local (to geronimo instance) EJB, called
>>> MySecurityServicesB.
>>>
>>> The security information store used is controlled at run time
>>> though an
>>> external configuration file.
>>>
>>> When myappA is deployed with myappB, myappA should use
>>> SecurityInformationStoreB. When myappA is deployed alone, it
>>> should use
>>> SecurityInformationStoreA.
>>>
>>> From your response, I gather that the XML above needs to include a
>>> reference
>>> to the SecurityInformationStoreB EJB. Using a reference rather
>>> than a
>>> dependency will allow myappA to deploy, even if myappB is not
>>> present.
>>>
>>> The suggestion below is an "ejb-ref" element. It is possible
>>> that one
>>> of
>>> these needs to go somewhere else in geronimo-application.xml.
>>>
>>> To tie this back in to the original post, myappB makes use of
>>> myappA
>>> EJBs.
>>> myappB gracefully handles the absence of myappA by returning
>>> "nothing".
>>> myappA handles the absence of myappB by using the alternative
>>> security
>>> information store.
>>>
>>> Thank you for any insight you might have into possible solutions
>>> using
>>> Geronimo 1.1.1.
>>>
>>
>> you need to be able to run either app with or without the other app
>> present, right?
>>
>> IIUC there are 2 different situations here.
>> --myappB has j2ee components (ejbs) accessing ejbs in myappA.
>> You should
>> be able to make this work with the ejb-ref xml I showed before in
>> myappB's geronimo plan.
>> --a login module deployed with myappA needs to be able to access
>> ejbs in
>> myappB. This is harder. A login module is not a j2ee
>> component, so it
>> doesn't have the java:comp/env jndi environment available to it, and
>> there is no spec compliant standard way to access a local ejb from a
>> non-j2ee-component, so you will need some geronimo specific
>> code. The
>> easiest way is to use the ejb Reference object we use in jndi,
>> yourself.
>>
>>
>> Your login module will need to use the geronimo Kernel. It can
>> obtain
>> this from the options by looking up the key
>> "org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.KERNEL". I
>> 'd
>> suggest passing in the name of the ejb it's trying to use as another
>> option. This would be the geronimo AbstractName of the ejb
>> container
>> gbean. It also needs the moduleId of the app it's in.
>>
>> public void initialize(Subject subject, CallbackHandler
>> callbackHandler, Map sharedState, Map options) {
>> Kernel kernel = (Kernel) options.get
>> ("org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.KERNEL");
>> String ejbNameString = (String) options.get
>> ("com.myco.SecurityEjbAbstractName");
>> AbstractNameQuery ejbNameQuery = new AbstractNameQuery
>> (URI.create(ejbNameString));
>> String moduleIdString = (String) options.get
>> ("com.myco.security.ModuleId");
>> Artifact moduleId = Artifact.create(moduleIdString);
>>
>> EjbReference ref = new EjbReference(moduleId, ejbNameQuery,
>> false);
>> ref.setKernel(kernel);
>> EjbBLocalHome home = (EjbBLocalHome) ref.getContent();
>> ...
>>
>> }
>>
>> So this uses options
>> org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm.KERNEL
>> which you
>> don't have to set (geronimo sets it by itself),
>> com.myco.SecurityEjbAbstractName (something that uniquely
>> identifies the
>> ejb target. If nothing in your app has a similar name, "?
>> name=EjbB#"
>> should work)
>> com.myco.security.ModuleId (the moduleId specified in the
>> geronimo plan
>> for moduleA, as a string like groupId/artifactId/version/type)
>>
>> The last 2 need to be set in the xml login configuration.
>>
>> if you unwind the code the EjbReference uses you can eliminate the
>> moduleId. To compile this you'll need at least the geronimo-kernel,
>> geronimo-naming, and openejb-core jars in your classpath. If you
>> copy
>> appropriate bits of the code you can eliminate geronmo-naming.
>>
>> hope this helps
>> david jencks
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "David Jencks" <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote
>>> in message
>>> news:58AB7426-2670-4DF0-9A96-7EF0B299E65D@yahoo.com...
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:06 PM, pgrey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, we have run into a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> The EJBs are in different EARs.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you ejbs are in different ears, things get a bit
>>>>>> trickier. IIRC
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> have to supply the entire abstract name of the ejb
>>>>>> container gbean
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> at least one side of the relationship.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you give an example of "supply the entire abstract name of
>>>>> the ejb
>>>>> container gbean"?
>>>>
>>>> This would go in your geronimo plan, I think its the correct
>>>> syntax
>>>> for
>>>> g. 1.1 and 1.2.
>>>>
>>>> Lets say your looking for the bar ejb in (geronimo) module
>>>> com.myco/
>>>> app1/1.0/car in the ejb1.jar (j2ee) module
>>>>
>>>> <ejb-ref>
>>>> <ref-name>foo</ref-name>
>>>> <pattern>
>>>> <groupId>com.myco</groupId>
>>>> <artifactId>app1</artifactId>
>>>> <version>1.0</version>
>>>> <type>car</type>
>>>> <module>ejb1.jar</module>
>>>> <name>bar</name>
>>>> </pattern>
>>>> </ejb-ref>
>>>>
>>>> You can probably leave out the version, and possibly the type and
>>>> module.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> david jencks
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you kindly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "David Jencks" <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
>>>>> wrote
>>>>> in message
>>>>> news:235FAA12-810B-4CAF-975A-8A66357100A1@yahoo.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Spotts, Joel ((ISS Atlanta)) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a bit of a predicament with circular refrences in
>>>>>>> EJBs. Due
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> legacy reasons, I have two EJBs - each which references
>>>>>>> the other
>>>>>>> (and
>>>>>>> refactoring would be non-trivial). I would prefer to keep them
>>>>>>> local
>>>>>>> (as
>>>>>>> opposed to remote) for security reasons. Trouble is, I
>>>>>>> don't know
>>>>>>> how
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> deploy such an arrangement in geronimo. Each EJB will need to
>>>>>>> reference
>>>>>>> the other in openejb- jar.xml with an <ejb-ref> stanza.
But
>>>>>>> since
>>>>>>> each
>>>>>>> one is dependent on the other, each one cannot be deployed
>>>>>>> before
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> other (as geronimo checks for the ejb reference at deploy
>>>>>>> time).
>>>>>>> Without
>>>>>>> violated some accepted principals of physics, that leads to an
>>>>>>> impossible situation. How could I go about solving this issue?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is supposed to work easily, at least if the ejbs are in
>>>>>> the same
>>>>>> ear. Deployment goes in phases: in "initContext" we try to
>>>>>> find out
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> "publish" all the things you could possibly reference, such
>>>>>> as ejbs
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> datasources. Then in "addGBeans" we process the jndir ref
>>>>>> info and
>>>>>> construct the jndi References to the appropriate stuff. For
>>>>>> ejbs
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> same ear, all necessary info should have been "published" and
>>>>>> thus
>>>>>> available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you ejbs are in different ears, things get a bit
>>>>>> trickier. IIRC
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> have to supply the entire abstract name of the ejb
>>>>>> container gbean
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> at least one side of the relationship.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you speculating or have you actually run into a problem :-)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>> david jencks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yoel Spotts
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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